If you're looking for a good programmer, it often pays to be looking for one in a niche language. Paul Graham referred to this as the Python paradox: http://www

If you're looking for a good programmer, it often pays to be looking for one in a niche language. Paul Graham referred to this as the Python paradox: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html (The inverse of this is if you're looking for a PHP programmer, and posting ads on monster.com ;) )